1930s Era - Kannada Movies - Best Five . Review on Five Best Kannada Movies

Review by Sridhar Rajanna @ KannadaAudio.net.

Since it is tough to pick just 5 kannada movies as the best from the whole lot of classics and entertaining movies made in Kannada from the 30s era to the present, I will start from the 30s decade.

Here are the Best 5 kannada movies from the 1930s decade.

Pioneers of Kannada Films: Subbayya Naidu, R Nagendra Rao and the veteran Theater Legend - Gubbi Veeranna were the stalwarts of this earliest era of Kannada Cinema. This decade also saw the first movie based on social drama - Samsaara nauke - a super hit of its time(the 2nd in my top 5 list of the 30s)

But it is Sadaarame, the huge entertainer which is the Best movie of the 30s. Story  of a thief and his bride(based on a popular play by Gubbi veeranna drama company) - had the popular song- nin kanDu naa bande nan kanDu nee bande stop and talk to me lovely lady:)(this movie was again remade in the 50s)

NOTE: The names of the cast are in phonetic style(easy to use in kannada transliteration)

#5. Rajasuya Yaaga 1937

Cast: es.Ar.vAsudEvarAv, Ti.ke.rAmamUrti, ke.Ar.sitArAm, Ti.jayamma, Ti.caMdraSEKar, sarOja

#4. Purandaradaasa 1937

Cast: ji.kRuShNasvAmi aiyyaMgAr, tripurAMBa, je.Ti.bAlakRuShNarAv

#3. Sati Sulochana 1934

Cast: nAgEMdrarAv, subbayyanAyDu, lakShmIbAyi, tripurAMBa, si.Ti.SEShAcalam

#2. Samsara Nauka 1936

Cast: bi.Ar.paMtulu, eM.vi.rAjamma, es.ke.padmAdEvi, eM.es.mAdhavarav, Dikki mAdhavarAv

#1. Sadaarame 1935

Cast: bi.Ar.paMtulu, eM.vi.rAjamma, es.ke.padmAdEvi, eM.es.mAdhavarav, Dikki mAdhavarAv

Other good movies of this decade are:

*Bhakta Dhruva 1934 - based on the story of the child devotee Dhruva.

Cast: mA.muttu, Ti.dvArakAnAth, hec.es.kRuShNasvAmi aiyyaMgAr, ji.nAgESarAyaru, eM.ji.marirAv, Ti.kanakalakShmamma

Chiranjeevi 1936 - based on the story of Bhakta markanDeya, Lord Shiva and Yama.

Cast: dEvuDu, SArada, maLavaLLi suMdramma, basavarAju mAnsUr, Ar.es.mUrti, nArAyaNarAv